Spring activities update:

NSSL/SPC will host its fourth annual "Spring Program" from mid-April to early-June. SPC forecasters and NSSL/CIMMS researchers will work side-by-side to evaluate the latest Short Range Ensemble Forecast systems.

BAMEX - A Bow-Echo and MCV Experiment (BAMEX) workshop was held in St. Louis in early March.

TELEX - The second part of the Thunderstorm Electrification and Lightning EXperiment (TELEX) will be held from May-June 2004. Information gathered from the TELEX project will point to new ways for the NWS to use lightning observations to improve forecasts and warnings of hazardous weather.